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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
To put it another way: The publishers should not be prevented from using a legal pricing method as punishment for collusion, and the DoJ should not degrade competition (and inexplicably favor Amazon) in order to fix anti-competitive behavior.
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Precisely. I entirely agree with you. It would be wrong for publishers to be banned from using agency pricing (a perfectly legal thing to do) as "punishment" for a different illegal act (collusion). They should certainly be fined for their illegal act, but to ban them for engaging in entirely legal business practices would be unjust.